Malifaux

So we've recently started looking at Malifaux. I managed go get some figures second hand - Lady Justice crew - in metal. These are them painted up.

I only realised afterwards that I forgot to do the eyes on the Death Marshall's. I shall remedy that.....

I also made some scheme markers from old Tomb Kings (GW Fantasy) extra bits.

Space Wolves

My entire Space Wolves Great Company.

Balsa model plane

Now for something completely different.

When I was a kid, I used to build Balsa Wood and Plastic model planes.
I had most of Battle of Britian planes hanging from the ceiling in my
room.

My wife knew about this, and just before Christmas last, we were at a
hobby shop that had these model kits for sale. Now, bear in mind, I
haven't built one of these for 26 or more years. So this was truely an
emotional blast from the past - my Dad and I used to build these
together. Never flew them, always static models.

 

The Kit in question:

Plans laid out on Foamboard, covered with Wax Paper to protect it:

Parts of the kit:

Starting fuselage:

Fuselage done:

Notice how straight it is:

Rubber done:\

Tail plane done:

2014 - a new fresh start

So here we are. 15 days into 2014.

 

So what does 2014 hold in store? Well, one of the things I'm doing is a self imposed / "management assisted" idea of actually trying to buy very little in the Hobby area this year, and focus more on the actual painting / playing of Wargames. More thinking, less impulse buying.

 

I've got a stupid amount of "plastic crack" waiting to be assembled / shown the light of day etc.

 

So far, I've started off with a bang doing the Year Of Painting (YOP).

 

Towards the end of 2013, I was introduced to playing SAGA. Great rule set. As part of Christmas presents from the kids, I got the new 6 point SAGA Scots army. An acquaintance of mine was selling off his rule book and Scots dice, which I bought in November, so that definitely influenced the choice of starter army. :)

 

I've also got a box of Warlord's Viking Hirdmen, so plan on making a Viking SAGA army sometime this year as well.

 

The Scots are all done and painted - I even strung the bows, thanks for holiday break. I'm post photos of the SAGA Scots when I get time to take some nice ones.

 

Next on the assembly / production line is my Bolt Action Airborne force. After a frenzy of new / second hand purchases (see my Birthday present post from 2013), I've got 120 figures to paint. 17 are done so far......

 

X-wing

So, after a fair amount of time procrastinating about this game, a friend of mine bought a starter set and some other goodies when he was in Europe.

 

Suffice to say, that was the catalyst to start the collection.

 

It started with an order from US, with Starter Set, Slave 1, and YT-1300 (Millennium Falcon).

Then it was another starter set locally (too damn impatient to wait).

 

Then a LARGE (for me, anyway), order was placed:

Lambda-class Shuttle Expansion Pack

TIE Interceptor Expansion Pack

A-Wing Expansion Pack

TIE Bomber Expansion Pack

B-Wing Expansion Pack

HWK-290 Expansion Pack

 

After playing a number of games, it's an absolute BLAST! So much fun. More to follow, including some pics.....

My Birthday presents arrived!

Happy Birthday, to me. Happy Birthday, to me.


etc etc.

What I ordered for myself:
2 boxes Red Devils (19 dudes per box)
British Para 3" mortar
British Para Close Quarter fighters, and Flamethrower
British Para 6 pounder AT gun
British Para 75mm Howitzer
2 blisters of British Para squad (10 per blister)
Sherman Firefly (yes, I know technically they didn't have them, but it's a FIREFLY). Jayne would be proud.
3 4Ground buildings - 2 end damaged ones, 1 damaged mid-terrace.


And with that, it all goes into the cupboard until end November. I have too many exams / work IT courses coming up to do these justice, so will have to wait until the end of the year / later in the year.

Still to come to round off the force are some Universal Carriers. 6 to be exact.

Bolt Action at Dragonfire

So we had a very memorable game of Bolt Action on Saturday 10th August 2013.
It was roughly 6000 points a side, between German and Soviets.
The forces were basically all we had between 4 or 5 people.
Germans were 54 order dice, Soviets were 72 order dice!

The table prior to any deployments:

Most of the German forces set out:

Look - it's the man with a plan!

 Soviets busy unpacking.

Nothing disrupts the Soviets plans like making the tow for the gun "Go Down". Next turn I popped the T-34 with my Tiger. The Soviets used the T-34's as tows, because we don't have enough other trucks etc.....yet.

 The grinder of a battle in the forest. Trees removed for figure placement.

 Told you it was a grinder of a battle. This is two turns later. Reinforcements arriving....

Pak-40 in the town. Alas, it got to the point that it was out of range of any viable targets.

In the end, the Soviets won the game. Main reason we ran out of time. In future, a game this size needs to be run over two days.